Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

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Normativity all the way down

from normative realism to pannormism

Einar Duenger Bohn

pp. 4107-4124

Abstract

In this paper, I will give an argument for what I call pannormism, the view according to which if x instantiates a metaphysically basic normative property F, then whatever grounds the being of x also instantiates F. In slogan form: if there is normativity, there is normativity all the way down. Such pannormism is in many ways analogous to panpsychism, and my discussion also contains an important lesson for panpsychism, a way to avoid its so-called combination problem. In Sect. 1, I present the argument; in Sect. 2, I discuss its conclusion.

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Bewersdorf Benjamin, Peijnenburg Jeanne (2018) Epistemic justification. Synthese 195 (9).

Pages: 4107-4124

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1410-3

Full citation:

Duenger Bohn Einar (2018) „Normativity all the way down: from normative realism to pannormism“. Synthese 195 (9), 4107–4124.